when was the last time the buzz around a new superfood nudged you to put it in your shopping cart? The concept of superfoods may seem positively trendy nowadays, but these healthy ingredients have likely been with us for as long as we’ve been eating. Take quinoa, the nutritious grain-like seed that’s superfood royalty now: it was just as prized long ago in South America, where the Incans ate it as a sacred daily staple and even used it in religious offerings. And new superfoods seem to keep cropping up in our consciousness, from yesterday’s pomegranates and kale to today’s maqui berries and oat milk.